Ἀπὸ μηχανῆς θεός — “a god from the machine.”

In Greek tragedy the phrase named something built, not just written: the mechane, a wooden crane and pulley system that could lower an actor playing a god onto the stage, or raise one through a trap in the floor — arriving, quite literally, out of the sky.

Aeschylus is credited with its first use, in The Eumenides, but it was Euripides who returned to it again and again: more than half of his surviving tragedies end this way, a god descending to settle what the mortals on stage could not resolve themselves.

Aristotle disapproved. A play's resolution, he wrote in the Poetics, should grow out of the plot itself, never descend into it from outside. The criticism outlived the cranes — and so did the phrase, which has named, ever since, the moment an impossible situation is resolved not by what came before it, but by what arrives from elsewhere.

Felipe Díaz Galarce — Director

Creator and producer of performing and audiovisual art, based between Chile and Austria.

His fascination with the narrative potential of the movement of bodies, images and sounds has led him to experiment in dramaturgy, scriptwriting, storytelling, direction, stage design and assembly, cinematography, acting and dance. He has written and directed plays, performances, magazines, short films and music videos.

From 2009 to 2019 he was producer and director of the stage company Turba.

In 2018 he created dEUSeXmACHINAfilms. The short film “Misoginia PANDORA” was screened at over 15 festivals and was awarded Best Film at the IMAGITARI DANCE FESTIVAL INDONESIA. The music video “Al aire el río” by the band SUBE won the Animal and Environmental Film Festival Mexico. With Heidi Duckler Dance he produced the short film “ESCAPE”, screened at over 10 festivals and received an honorable mention at the MEXICO CITY VIDEODANCE FESTIVAL.

He practices contemporary dance and is a member of the mundomoebio company, with which he has performed in Argentina, Peru, Chile, Brazil, Canada, and China.